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Publish and be damned
Spectrum, Justin Heifetz, Published on 06/10/2013
» A dozen daily print periodicals hit the streets running after government reforms in the media _ and while it's become a futile battle to post gains, journalists struggling for breath in the saturated market persevere for new-found freedoms. On shoestring budgets in leaky offices, media owners are converting old residential apartments into newsrooms.
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Savvy former PM looks set to stir up the hornet's nest
Spectrum, Luke Hunt, Published on 25/08/2013
» After decades in the political wilderness, former Cambodian prime minister Pen Sovann will make his political comeback in late September when the National Assembly sits. He'll be seated opposite politicians he once worked with and some who deserted and betrayed him.
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Activist's disappearance gives vientiane a black eye in asean
Spectrum, Published on 16/06/2013
» Six months after the disappearance in Vientiane of Sombath Somphone, the founder of an NGO set up to help rural youth, the Lao government is looking increasingly like the black sheep among its Asean neighbours.
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In a flash: from Myanmar's jungles to the wilds of urban America
Spectrum, Noel Boivin, Published on 21/04/2013
» In late 2006, British photojournalist James Robert Fuller met Ta Ju, a Karen villager living in a refugee camp on the Thai-Myanmar border who was just about to embark on the first step of his family's resettlement to the United States.
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Is 'White Prison' making Bang Khwang a darker place?
Spectrum, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 17/03/2013
» Bang Khwang Central Prison is undergoing a transformation under an initiative aimed at ridding the notorious "Bangkok Hilton" and eight other facilities of drugs and other contraband. The "White Prison" policy came into effect last May under new director Vasant Singkaselit. Under the policy, visitors have been banned from bringing food, clothes or other items for prisoners; even books are banned. Prisoners are allowed to meet visitors once a day for 45 minutes, up to two visits a week, while visitors can only seen one inmate per day. Inmate workshops have been cancelled, punishments have become harsher and access to help in case of medical or fire emergencies has been limited.
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Map-Making chronicle finds its way to the silly side of a dry art
Spectrum, Published on 23/12/2012
» Simon Garfield's past work includes a whole book about the colour mauve and last year's delightful Just My Type, an ebullient survey of facts about fonts and typography. Now he turns his attention to a somewhat mustier subject _ the history of cartography. He is most engaging on the most chequered parts of that history.
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'Alif the unseen': A Cross-Cultural harry potter for the web set
Spectrum, Published on 15/07/2012
» In an unnamed emirate in the Persian Gulf there lives a young man with Harry Potter potential. He calls himself Alif, for the letter in the Arabic alphabet, but that's not his real name. It's the internet moniker he uses for his work as a hacker, protecting his clients from censors and the secret police. Alif is uncannily good at this. He's not a boy wizard like Harry, but he works magic just the same.
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Knowledge essential to rental riches
Spectrum, Published on 20/05/2012
» Rental yields remained largely unchanged in the first quarter of this year in the downtown Bangkok condominium market, ranging from 3% to 9%, despite prices for new properties rising and no significant growth in the number of expatriate tenants. The findings appear in CBRE's quarterly survey based on all of the company's letting transactions for the last quarter.
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No easy answer to who lit fuse in bomb attacks
Spectrum, Published on 26/02/2012
» Since the bomb blasts earlier this month which struck Bangkok and New Delhi, and a failed attack in the Georgian capital Tbilisi, confusion over events on the ground has been compounded by a predictable war of words between Iran, widely viewed as behind the attacks, and its arch-enemy Israel, the apparent target.
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Order in the house! Make mine a double
Spectrum, Post Reporters, Published on 04/03/2012
» Politicians and alcohol _ much like love and marriage _ go together like a horse and carriage. While the Democrats have been wagging their collective finger at Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung for appearing to have had one too many before a debate in parliament, many who aren't Thai or don't understand Thai politics, media or culture are simply bemused.
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